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Google DNS Glitch Caused Outage
An anonymous reader writes "Google suffered a pretty long outage saturday evening, due to some DNS glitches, according to company spokesperson. All Google services were down for a while, including Gmail and Google AdSense. There seems to be a DNS hijack, as some screen grabs show that Google.com was redirecting to another site, SoGoSearch.com. "
I think it's far more likely that there are quite a few people out there with some sort of malware redirecting their failed DNS lookups to this site, as opposed to Google's DNS entry being hacked.
Thought gmail was slow and Adsens was not working but google.co.in was up and running :)
:-?
However I noticed http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/ don't know what the hell it is... or just one of those google own funny stuff
The important thing is not to stop questioning --Albert Einstein.
Looks like these clowns aren't just limiting themselves to Google...
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During Q1 2005, Google cashed $657 million by showing sponsored links on search results. This means 300,000 US$ per hour. Taking into account that this issue happened on Saturday (less users), we can estimate the 'non-revenue' figure in 400,000 US$ aprox, without considering other non-working services like Google AdSense, which probably suffered problems during this time.
http://google-blog.dirson.com/post.new/0260/
Google offers search results via SMS (text message 46645 with your query). It also has Google local, which means you can search for telephone numbers. I don't know of another search service with this functionality, and I attempted an out of state lookup during the outage without knowing about it. I actually did get results much later, but they weren't useful then.
A couple of years ago, I wouldn't have looked up the number at all, but I also wouldn't have been used to being able to look it up at any time.
Sigs are like bumper stickers.
A better idea is to not have such brain-dead DWIM "features" in the browser. What kind of stupidity is it to blindly append a TLD to a URL that already ends in a valid TLD?
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
I'm sorry, but "important" email being sent to a free email account?
Are you retarded? What do you suggest people use their gmail accounts for? Giving to spammers? Giving it to people you don't care to reply to? Not using it for anything except for sending gmail invites?
All email that isn't spam or mailing lists is important in some way or another. What if it was an email from your g/f? What if it was from an ebay sale or purchase?
Think about the people who would use free email services....just about everyone and for personal use. The email you get may not be about life or death or the next business deal but it's still important.
"Free" doesn't typically mean "great support", not even in the case of Google.
Duh. Noone implied otherwise. Free or not, people come to rely on their email address and saying that people can simply switch to another provider in the same way as they could simply switch search engines is simply ridiculous. It's like losing your phone (and phonebook) and having to somehow notify everyone of your new phone number.
No. You're confusing the "resolver library" code used by the program, and "resolving name servers" network services. He's describing the built in search feature that many resolver libraries use, you're describing the part of the network protocol that library uses to communicate with the network service.
It's worth asking if Mozilla and Firefox use the "default" resolver of the host operating system, or if the developers took the "path of greatest suprise" by including one of their own.
I knew that . Where is the full detailed breakdown?
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